Clara Muschietti, translated by Curtis Bauer

The unrestrained and skeptical voice of award-winning Argentine poet Clara Muschietti, here available for the first time in English translation by Curtis Bauer, PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grantee and winner of International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction Book Translation, embodies an ideal that demands elegance in suffering and grace under pressure as her intense observation finds poetry that enters the heart of the world, with all its cruelty and all its tenderness.

PRAISE

"Photographer and poet Clara Muschietti's one-of-a-kind poems live in the space between the outer world and the inner world, and translator Curtis Bauer expertly and beautifully brings us into that vibrating space—navigating between buildings, bodies, and breath, along with what we thought would be and what we see in front of us. 'Right now/ I find it impossible to believe/ all the information/ I was given about the world,' Muschietti writes. Inside the animal wail of these poems for a 'broken country' and a life on hold, there is sage advice on how to move past the present. As Muschietti brilliantly puts it: 'I get along better with the future, but mostly with the distant future: I fantasize big time.' —Aviya Kushner, author of WOLF LAMB BOMB and The Grammar of God

Poetry, Spanish & English

Publication date: March 23, 2022

ISBN-13: 978-1732936386

Format: Softcover, 135 pages, 6"x9"